Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

God has created the world in play.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.